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阅读理解。     The man of many secrets-Harry Houdini-was one of the greatest American entertainers in the theater this
century. He was a man famous for his escapes-from prison cells, from wooden boxes floating in rivers, from
locked tanks full of water. He appeared in theaters all over Europe and America. Crowds came to see the great
Houdini and his "magic" tricks.
     Of course, his secret was not magic or supernatural powers. It was simply strength. He had the ability to
move his toes as well as he moved his fingers. He could move his body into almost any position he wanted.
     Houdini started working in the entertainment world when he was 17, in 1891. He and his brother Theo
performed card tricks in clubs in New York. They called themselves the Houdini Brothers. When Harry
married in 1894, he and his wife Bess worked together as magician and assistant. Bur for a long time they
were not very successful. Then Harry performed his first prison escape in Chicago in 1898. Harry persuaded
a detective to let him try to escape from the prison, and he invited the local newspapermen to watch.
     It was the publicity (宣传) that came from this that started Harry Houdini"s success. Harry had fingers
trained to escape from handcuffs and toes trained to escape ankle chains. But his biggest secret was how he
unlocked the prison doors. Every time he went into the prison cell, Bess gave him a kiss for good luck-and a
small skeleton key, which is a key that fits many locks, pass quickly from her mouth to his.
     Harry used these prison escapes to build his fame. He arranged to escape from the local prison of every
town he visited. In the afternoon, the people of the town would read about it in their local newspapers, and
in the evening every seat in the local theater would be full. What was the result? Worldwide fame and a name
remembered today. 1. According to the passage, Houdini"s success in prison escapes depends on ______. A. his special tricks and supernatural powers
B. his unusual ability and skeleton key
C. his magic tricks and inhuman powers
D. his wisdom and magic tricks 2. In the fourth paragraph, the underlined word "this" refers to ______. A. his first prison escape
B. the year 1898
C. the publicity
D. Harry Houdini"s success3. It can be inferred from the passage that Houdini became famous ______. A. in 1894
B. before he married
C. at the age of 17
D. when he was 24 4. Which of the following is the best title for the passage? A. A skeleton key
B. A man of many secrets
C. Worldwide fame
D. Great escapes

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阅读理解。     Robert Spring, a 19th century forger (伪造者), was so good at his profession that he was able to make his
living for 15 years by selling false signatures of Americans. Spring was born in England in 1813 and arrived in
Philadelphia in 1858 to open a bookstore. At first he became rich by selling his small but real collection of early
U.S. autographs (手稿). Discovering his ability at copying handwriting, he began imitating signatures of George
Washington and Ben Franklin and writing them on the title pages of old books. To lessen the chance of detection
(察觉), he sent his forgeries to England and Canada for sale.
     Forgers have a hard time selling their products. A forger can"t deal with a respectable buyer but people who
don"t have much knowledge in the field. Forgers have many ways to make their work look real. For example,
they buy old books to use the aged paper of the title page, and they can treat paper and ink with chemicals.
    In Spring"s time, right after the Civil War, Britain was still fond of the Southern states, so Spring invented a
respectable maiden lady known as Miss Fanny Jackson, the only daughter of General "Stonewall" Jackson. For
several years Miss Fanny"s financial problems forced her to sell a great number of letters and manuscripts.
Spring had to work very hard to satisfy the demand. All this activity did not prevent Spring from dying in
poverty, leaving sharp-eyed experts the difficult task of separating his forgeries from the originals. 1. Why did Spring sell his false autographs in England and Canada? A. There was a greater demand there than in America.
B. There was less chance of being detected there.
C. Britain was Spring"s birthplace.
D. The prices were higher in England and Canada. 2. After the Civil War, there was a great demand in Britain for _____. A. Southern money
B. signatures of George Washington and Ben Franklin
C. Southern manuscripts and letters
D. Civil War battle plans 3. Robert Spring spent 15 years _____. A. running a bookstore in Philadelphia
B. keeping in touch with Miss Fanny Jackson
C. as a forger
D. as a respectable dealer 4. According to the passage, forgeries are usually sold to _____. A. sharp-eyed experts
B. persons who aren"t experts
C. book dealers
D. owners of old books

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完形填空。     Lang Lang is a world-class young pianist who grew up in Sheng yang. He went to a piano school in Beijing
when he was just eight. "You need fortune," his father said."But if you don"t work hard, no   1 will come."
     What made him sad was   2 his piano teacher in Beijing didn"t like him. "You have no talent (天赋). You
will never be a pianist."   3 a nine-year-old boy, Lang Lang was badly   4 . He decided not to be a   5 any
more. For the next two weeks, he didn"t play  6   piano. Wisely, he father didn"t push, but waited.
     Luckily, the day came when his teacher asked him to   7 some holiday songs. He didn"t want to, but as he
placed his fingers on the piano keys, he realized that he   8   show others that he had   9 .That day he told his
father what he had been waiting to hear-that he wanted  10 with a new teacher.  11  that moment on,
everything turned around.
     He started  12   competitions. In the 1994 International Young Pianists Competition,when it  13 announced
that Lang Lang had won, he was too  14 to hold back his tears. Soon  15  was clear that he couldn"t stay in
China forever-he had to play on the world"s  16  stages. In 1997 Lang Lang  17  again, this time to Philadelphia,
U.S.. There he spent two years practising, and by 1999 he had worked hard enough for fortune to take over.
After his
18 performance at Chicago"s Ravinia Festival, gigs (特邀演出) in Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall started
breaking.  19 Lang Lang worked to reach the place where fortune spots (发现) 20 , and lets him develop.

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Bill Clinton was born on August 19, 1946 in a town called Hope, with the birth name William Jefferson
Blythe. His birth father died in a car accident just three months before his birth. When he was born, his
mother sent him to live with his grandparents because she couldn"t possibly support a child by herself. He
lived with his grandparents for two years while his mother was away at a nursing school in New Orleans,
trying to advance her career. When Bill was four, his mother returned to Hope, where she met and married
Roger Clinton Sr. A few years later, Bill and his family moved to Hot Springs, where Bill attended school.
When he was nine years old, he changed schools and went to Ramble Elementary.
When Bill was ten, Roger Clinton Jr. was born, and at age fifteen, Bill took his stepfather"s last name in
hopes of helping his mother"s troubled relationship. While Bill was growing up in Hot Springs, the town was
troubled by gambling (赌博), but Bill had little contact with this part of society despite his parents" frequent
participation (参与) in these illegal practices. As time went by, his mother"s relationship with Roger Clinton
Sr. became more and more unstable. His parents often separated. In high school, Bill was a member of the
band, student government, honor society and many other organizations. One summer at a political summer
camp called Boys State, Bill ran for delegate (代表) to Boys Nation. He won this election and was on his way
to Washington to meet John F. Kennedy, the president. Bill said of his victory, "I didn"t know if I could win
a race like that...". After that, Bill became determined to enter politics.

1. William Jefferson Blythe moved to Hot Springs _______.

A. when he was born
B. before he was nine years old
C. when his mother remarried
D. when he was two

2. Bill Clinton once stayed in the following places EXCEPT _______.

A. the town of Hope
B. the nursing school in New Orleans
C. Hot Springs
D. Ramble Elementary

3. Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A. Roger Clinton Sr. was always kind to Bill and his mother.
B. Bill Clinton was once called William Jefferson Blythe before 15.
C. Bill" s mother and stepfather were interested in gambling.
D. Roger Clinton Jr. was Bill Clinton"s half brother.

4. It can be learned from the passage that _______.

A. Bill wanted to be a president while studying at school
B. Boys Nation was a political summer camp
C. members of Boys State could see the president
D. Bill decided to enter politics after meeting John F. Kennedy

完形填空。

     Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954 to a Mexican American family.   1  the only girl in a family of
    2   children, she often   3   she had "seven fathers, " because her six brothers,   4   her father, tried to control
her. Feeling shy and   5 , she retreated (躲避) into books.  6    her love of   7 , she did not do well in elementary school because she was too shy to take part in the activities in school.
     In high school, with the   8 of one particular teacher, Cisneros   9   her grades and worked for the school
literary (文艺) magazine. Her father encouraged her to go to 10   because he thought it would be a good way
for her to find a   11 . Cisneros did attend college, but instead of searching for a husband, she found a teacher
who helped her join the famous graduate writing program at the University of Iowa. At the university"s Writers"
Workshop,   12 , she felt lonely-a(n) 13   American from a poor neighborhood among students from wealthy
families. The feeling of being so different   14   Cisneros find her "Creative voice."
     "It was not until this moment   15   I considered myself truly different that my writing got a voice. I knew I
was a Mexican woman, but I didn"t think it had anything to 16   with why I felt so much imbalance in my life,
but it had everything to do with it! That"s when I decided I would   17   about something my classmates
couldn"t."
     Cisneros  18  her first work, The House on Mango Street, when she was twenty-nine. The book tells about
a young Mexican American girl  19   up in a Spanish-speaking area in Chicago, much like the neighborhoods in
which Cisneros lived as a child. The book won an award in 1985 and has been used in classes from high school
to graduate school level.   20   then, Cisneros has published several books of poetry, a children"s book, and a
short-story collection.

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History has arrived Nine-year-old Barack Obama was looking through magazine. But the African-America boy was shocked by a series of photos. The pictures were of a black man who destroyed his skin with chemicals that promised to make him white. For the first time, the boy began to doubt who he was. "I stood in front of the mirror and wondered if something was wrong with me," Obama said. However, now the boy who used to struggle with his identity doesn"t see it as a problem any more, but an advantage for his career. Last week, Obama made history by being elected as the first black president of the US. He defeated John MaCain in a landslide (压倒性的) victory. Obama"s story starts in opposite corners of the world. His white mother was born in the heartland of the US. His black father grew up in a tiny village in Kenya. They met during in Hawaii, but his father left the family when Obama was just two years old and his mother moved to Indonesia. At 10, Obama moved back to live with his white grandparents in Hawaii where his sense that he didn"t belong grew. At his class a white boy asked Obama if his father ate people. Out of embarrassment, Obama lied to his classmates that his father was prince, "I kept asking who I am and I ended up trying drugs and drinking," Obama recalled. Things came to change after the young man made friends with those with a similar background at college. Their experiences back in Africa helped Obama to finally face up to his African origin. He worked hard to become a star at Harvard Law School and the third black senator (参议院) in US history. At the beginning of his campaign for the White House, few people viewed Obama favorably (赞同地). Many doubted his unusual background, which left him neither "black" enough nor white enough. But Obama turned his pain of growing up into a tool to make Americans believe: "There is not a black America, an Asian America. There"s the United States of America." Barack Obama"s victory is "a historic victory that promised change and overcame centuries of prejudice (偏见). His success fulfilled Martin Luther King"s dream that a man he judged not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character," wrote ABC news.
1. From the above passage we can know that Barack Obama was born in ______.
A. Kenya, Africa B. Hawaii, the USA C. Indonesia, Asia D. an unknown city, in Latino America
2. He lied to his classmates that his father was prince because ______.
A. he felt ashamed of his African origin B. he had unusual background- neither black nor white C. his black father deserted him when he was very young D. he didn"t have the sense of belonging
3. Put the following things in order of time. a. Obama is the third black senator(参议院) in US history b. Obama"s mother settled down in Indonesia with Barack Obama c. Obama stood out among his classmates in Harvard Law School d. Obama lived with his white grandparents in Hawaii e. Obama"s black father left him and his mother
A. c, d, a, b, e B. e, d, b, c, a C. d, b, a,e, c D. e, b, d, c, a
4. What does the title "History has arrived" probably mean?
A. Barack Obama eventually defeated his white opponent, John MaCain in a landslide victory. B. Barack Obama"s victory has given blacks and other minorities a true national role model. C. Barack Obama has become the first African-American President, overcoming centuries of prejudice. D. Through his great efforts, Barack Obama became the third black senator in the US history.